How To Install librepo.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install librepo.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. librepo.x86_64 is Repodata downloading library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install librepo.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `librepo.x86_64`

A library providing C and Python (libcURL like) API to downloading repository metadata.

We can use yum to install librepo.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install librepo.x86_64.

Install librepo.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install librepo.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install librepo.x86_64

How To Uninstall librepo.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the librepo.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove librepo.x86_64

librepo.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/librepo.so.0
/usr/share/doc/librepo-1.8.1
/usr/share/doc/librepo-1.8.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/librepo-1.8.1/README.md

References

librepo.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install librepo.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.